Financial tech startup PayIt announced Monday that it will work with the Sunflower State as its innovation partner. The Kansas City-based firm will work with Kansas’ Office of Information T... Read more

Kansas City witnessed one of its biggest startup successes in 2016 with EyeVerify’s massive exit. Stories like this bring Kansas City’s potential to the foreground. It validates that not onl... Read more

Government tech startup PayIt is working with the second-largest city in Missouri. The Kansas City-based company is now providing its mobile payment technology to the City of St. Louis, allo... Read more

Government tech startup PayIt is on a roll. Only weeks after a earning a commendation from Amazon, the Kansas City-based firm recently won a national pitch competition as part of the annual... Read more

It’s been in Kansas City only four months, but LaunchCode is already making an impact. The St. Louis-based non-profit organization arrived in February to grow Kansas City’s tech sector by or... Read more

The votes are in — and they arrived via page views. And in case you didn’t know: Kansas City produces a ton of startup news. A year ago today, we published our very first digest, and it’s be... Read more

Nearly a year after identifying an early-stage funding need in the area, a $25 million seed fund will open a Kansas City office that aims to boost local startups. With a Wednesday night intr... Read more

Like the dozens of people around him, John Thomson’s 2013 wait at the Missouri Department of Motor Vehicles had him aggravated. It was such a pain — watching the queue slowly subside while w... Read more

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1 Million Cups is a free, weekly national program designed to educate, engage, and connect entrepreneurs. Developed by the Kauffman Foundation, 1MC is based on the notion that entrepreneurs discover solutions and network over a

KC Roundtable is in existence to provide 20 and 30-something Kansas City entrepreneurs with a group of peers to support and collaborate on each others’ businesses. Our mission is to: – Focus on relationship building;

This session of FastTrac NewVenture includes classes on October 3, 10, 17, 24 and 31. Attendance at all five classes is strongly encouraged. In FastTrac® NewVenture™, a program of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation of

1 Million Cups is a free, weekly national program designed to educate, engage, and connect entrepreneurs. Developed by the Kauffman Foundation, 1MC is based on the notion that entrepreneurs discover solutions and network over a